How replicas will stymie Starmer’s trophy import ban
25 February 2026
The SCI Convention 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee, shows off all that’s best and biggest in hunting, sporting guns and taxidermy. A major theme this year
There have been several failed attempts to push through a trophy import ban – and now, as we approach the 2024 election, both Conservatives and Labour are jumping on the ‘ban’dwagon to stop something most of them don’t understand. Despite this cross-party enthusiasm, former Conservative MP Neil Parish doesn’t think introducing a ban on hunting ‘trophy’ imports will be easy – not least because of increasing resentment from African leaders, who see it as wealthy western countries once again imposing rules that affect their people. Parish says a ban will take away freedoms for people to hunt overseas and affect essential wildlife management at their destinations.
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The SCI Convention 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee, shows off all that’s best and biggest in hunting, sporting guns and taxidermy. A major theme this year
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